6 questions about carbon offsets for flights, answered

An additional project means that the only way the project would exist is because of the funding from the carbon markets,” says Marisa de Belloy, the chief executive of Cool Effect, a San Francisco Bay area 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization. “If I’m legally required to capture methane in my landfill site, I can’t sell carbon projects because I had to do it anyway, so it wouldn’t be an additional project.